Jeff Zients: HealthCare.gov to double capacity by Nov. 30

Tech surge czar Jeff Zients said that HealthCare.gov will be able to handle 50,000 users at a time by the end of this month – up from 25,000 now, thanks to hardware additions and software additions the team is putting in this weekend and next week.

He said that will enable the site to handle 800,000 people a day – “a conservative estimate,” he said in a conference call with reporters.

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The capacity additions, along with the extra week for people to sign up to get covered on Jan. 1, should allow everyone who needs coverage by the beginning of 2014 to get it, he said. Surges in traffic, though, could still create sporadic problems on the site.